social deprivation

The all-Russian empirical data revealed that 30.6% of Russians are in the state of poverty or misery: the smaller the size of the settlement is, the poorer people live there. As the population ages, it is more prone to poverty and misery. Poverty is very strongly correlated with social and political deprivation. The poorer the population is, the wider is its range of problems directly related to survival, the more often the main source of information for it is television, the more it is limited in its information and technological capabilities.

Article based on the results of empirical research of possibilities of correlation analysis of economic and social deprivation. Interrelation degree of deprivation and public participation. Clarified that the motives for participation in public life are only partly in the level of deprivation. It has been proven that when low civic participation of the Russian population as a whole, the smaller the deprivation of Russians is, the higher the level of activity of their practices of participation in public life.